Wildlife, a safe use for erodible land

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WILDLIFE— A

EXfERIItENT STATION FILE.

SAFE USE FOR

ERODIBLE LAND

Wildlife
life does

is the one crop which nature everywhere strives to produce. Since the harvesting of surplus wild-
not remove any of the vegetative cover — as does the harvesting of cultivated, meadow, pasture,
or timber crops — areas devoted to this use are permanently stabilized. More valuable

adjacent lands thereby are protected.

Youns cottontail rabbits Form a nest in tfie weeds and grass cover on
a field retired from cultivation because of severe erosion.

Natural growth of brush and small check dam have stabilized this
gully. The vegetation provides good escape cover for a variety of

small birds and fur animals.

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Gully stabilized by natural growth of grasses which provide nesting
cover for quail and similar wildlife species.

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Rough buttonweed seed on the ground at edge of field. Seed-bear-
ing shrubs and weeds furnish food and haven for wildlife.

An active gully on a site too unstable to be cultivated or pastured.

(See picture opposite.)

Chart No. 9

Protected by diversion ditch and a fence, the same gully a year later
is controlled and producing a good wildlife food supply.

Issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service (Dec. 1938 )

U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

8—11992